- Yep, there it is: the result of a scholarly study by Dorothy Gambrell of the “missed connections” section of Craigslist. This is where you thought you saw your future spouse or date or hook-up, state by state. It is, in some ways, a sign of where we are now most likely to see people we don’t know in various parts of the country. It’s also a sign of male loneliness or romance: men seeking to find a possible love-mate outnumber women 86 – 14.
There has to be some sort of explanation for Indiana, "At home" can't really be where missed connections happen.
There was a lengthy discussion in, I think, r/truereddit, which came to the conclusion that Indianans misinterpreted it to mean where they were submitting the ad from, or something. Side note, I was oddly proud of Oklahoma. About the only wholesome activity on the list.
I just checked /r/truereddit to see what it had, they also had a bigger version of the map: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BDoqLqeCQAA0Jbq.jpg:large What struck me then is if you look at the bottom left they have the source. They only pulled the top 100 most recent posts, which seems like a bad idea. This would be incredibly susceptible to the timing then, especially in major cities where a lot of posts might happen. Pulling the most recent 100 posts in NYC on a Monday morning would probably give you only posts from the weekend and then likely to be Bars/Clubs, if you pulled that instead on a Thursday morning you are more likely I'd bet to get Subway. Also, craigslist is broken up by cities, so this isn't really representative of a state as a whole potentially. I guess my point, this isn't really very good academic work.
Oh, good point inre: source. I thought the same, although I didn't bother to do any research, which is why I passed on sharing it. I also didn't really think it was up to truereddit standards, but that doesn't really matter. Still entertaining to look at.